The management of pit viper envenomation of the hand

Hand

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 324-331

  Bozkurt, Mehmet ^a   Kulahci, Yalcin ^b   Zor, Fatih ^c   Kapi, Emin ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Military Hospital   (Turkey)

^c GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hand reconstruction; Snakebite; Vipera

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749178508     PISSN: 15589447     EISSN: 15589455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11552-008-9114-2     Document Type: Article

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